AIR NAVIGATION (CHARGES).
No. 95 of 1964.
An Act relating to Charges in respect of Commonwealth Air Navigation Facilities and Services.
[Assented to 9th November, 1964.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1964.
(2.) The Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952-1963 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Air Navigation (Charges) Act 1952-1964.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-five.
First Schedule—paragraph 7.
3. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-paragraph (1.) of paragraph 7 and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraph:—
“(1.) The unit charge for an aircraft is—
(a) where the weight of the aircraft does not exceed 25,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 5.9895 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft;
(b) where the weight of the aircraft exceeds 25,000 pounds but does not exceed 50,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 9.317 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft;
(c) where the weight of the aircraft exceeds 50,000 pounds but does not exceed 100,000 pounds—an amount calculated at the rate of 11.979 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft; and
(d) in any other case—an amount calculated at the rate of 13.9755 pence for each 1,000 pounds or part of 1,000 pounds of the weight of the aircraft.”.
First Schedule—Table.
4. The Table of Flights set out in the First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act.
Application of amendments.
5. The amendments made to the Principal Act by this Act—
(a) apply in relation to a charge payable—
(i) in respect of a flight between places in Australia that is completed on or after the date of commencement of this Act;
(ii) in respect of the landing or take-off of an aircraft on or after that date;
(iii) by the registered owner of an aircraft in respect of a period that commences on or after that date; and
(iv) by the owner of a foreign aircraft, as defined by the Air Navigation Regulations, in respect of a week or a part of a week that commences on or after that date; and
(b) do not affect the application of the Principal Act in relation to any other charges.
THE SCHEDULE. Section 4.
AMENDMENTS OF THE TABLE OF FLIGHTS IN THE FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT.
| After item 7, insert the following item:— |
| “7a | Sydney-Albury............................................................................................................. | 2”. |
| Omit item 25, insert the following item:— |
| “25a | Sydney-Coolangatta................................................................................................... | 3”. |
| After item 26, insert the following item:— |
| “26a | Sydney-Coonabarabran............................................................................................ | 2”. |
| After item 29, insert the following item:— |
| “29a | Sydney-Corryong........................................................................................................ | 2”. |
| After item 52a, insert the following item:— |
| “52b | Sydney-Merimbula..................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 55, insert the following item:— |
| “55a | Sydney-Mount Isa...................................................................................................... | 7”. |
| After item 67a, insert the following item:— |
| “67b | Sydney-Quirindi........................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 129, insert the following item:— |
| “129a | Brisbane-Taroom........................................................................................................ | 2”. |
| After item 137, insert the following item:— |
| “137a | Melbourne-Albury....................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| Omit item 141. |
| Omit item 146, insert the following item:— |
| “146 | Melbourne-Coolangatta............................................................................................. | 7”. |
| After item 171, insert the following item:— |
| “17la | Melbourne-Warracknabeal....................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 189, insert the following item:— |
| “189a | Adelaide-Millicent....................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 190, insert the following item:— |
| “190a | Adelaide-Naracoorte................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 191, insert the following item:— |
| “191a | Adelaide-Oodnadatta................................................................................................. | 3”. |
| After item 210, insert the following items:— |
| “210a | Perth-Kununurra.......................................................................................................... | 7 |
| “210b | Perth-Laverton............................................................................................................. | 2”. |
| After item 224, insert the following item:— |
| “225 | Perth-Shark Bay.......................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| Omit item 228, insert the following items:— |
| “227a | Hobart-Flinders Island................................................................................................ | 2 |
| “228 | Hobart-Launceston..................................................................................................... | 1”. |
| After item 229, insert the following item:— |
| “229a | Hobart-Smithton......................................................................................................... | 2”. |
| After item 238a, insert the following item:— |
| “238b | Darwin-Mount Isa....................................................................................................... | 4”. |
| Omit item 292a. |
| After item 297, insert the following item:— |
| “297a | Tamworth-Coolangatta............................................................................................. | 2”. |
| Omit item 302, insert the following item:— |
| “302 | Townsville-Cairns........................................................................................................ | 1”. |